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How has OM been able to get members of the media to buy in to our propaganda?
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:07 pm
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:07 pm
Whether it be the overrated grove, the overrated female looks, the overrated square, hell, they'll even buy into our overrated football team.
All of these things are well known to be less than advertised, so my question is how did Ole Miss do it? How did they get away with some of the biggest lies and not have any members of the media even question it? List after list always has OM/Oxford near the top. Have none of these journalists actually visited the campus and just go off hearsay started by Ole Miss fans?
Whatever the truth may be, it's impressive on a lot of levels.
All of these things are well known to be less than advertised, so my question is how did Ole Miss do it? How did they get away with some of the biggest lies and not have any members of the media even question it? List after list always has OM/Oxford near the top. Have none of these journalists actually visited the campus and just go off hearsay started by Ole Miss fans?
Whatever the truth may be, it's impressive on a lot of levels.
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Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:08 pm to OBReb6
Word gets passed around at Klan meetings.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:10 pm to OBReb6
Speaking of lists post average graduate salary and academic rankings for OM. Those two reasons are why OM is not a destination university. There are better options out there
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:11 pm to texag7
How does that have a single thing with the thread topic? This is about lists that dumb schools get on.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:12 pm to OBReb6
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the overrated female looks
Were you posting on a blind members only site?
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:13 pm to AdamDeMamp
Our girls aren't any more impressive than any other school. You are tricked into thinking so because they dress nice and cake on makeup
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:13 pm to OBReb6
Some people like cold chicken tenders. Everyone does barbq. Everyone. But cold chicken tenders are original.
It pays to be different.
It pays to be different.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:13 pm to OBReb6
The delusion is easier to believe if everyone thinks it's real.
My OM grad neighbor called me a redneck last year because he wears vests and I'm barefoot the majority of the summer. Between work and side business I make way past twice what he does.
But I'm a redneck. .
My OM grad neighbor called me a redneck last year because he wears vests and I'm barefoot the majority of the summer. Between work and side business I make way past twice what he does.
But I'm a redneck. .
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:14 pm to OBReb6
The square is fun, the grove is just a big patch of grass, but also super fun.... And the women
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:15 pm to Hardy_Har
Hardy, what does income have to do with you being a redneck are not? I know some oil rednecks that make way more than me. They are rednecks because they are.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:16 pm to OBReb6
The Ole Miss narrative is very important in Mississippi for whatever reason. Maybe because Oxford represents some kind of hail mary attempt at having a cool town in the state or something.
IDK. I am from a faraway land where white ppl still send their kids to public schools.
IDK. I am from a faraway land where white ppl still send their kids to public schools.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:18 pm to wmr
That doesn't answer how we got the media to buy into it.
I mean, a group of well known analysts has Oxford at 3 and Fayettville 12. Explain that one to me
I mean, a group of well known analysts has Oxford at 3 and Fayettville 12. Explain that one to me
This post was edited on 4/21/15 at 7:20 pm
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:19 pm to cardboardboxer
Income really has nothing to do with being a redneck, but it's more about him trying to be something he isn't.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:20 pm to OBReb6
The narrative is very important, therefore it is oft-repeated. It isn't as important other places where there's more good stuff to go around.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:21 pm to OBReb6
Everybody believes in Ole Miss football team? You will likely picked to finish 3rd or 4th in the west at best. Of course, I guess that is an improvement over where Ole Miss is usually picked
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:21 pm to OBReb6
It has to do with expectations. Because of Mississippi's abject poverty and reputation for backwardness, writers are blown away when they see its a normal town that's only kind of backwards. JMO
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:22 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
For the record I am a fricking redneck. .
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:22 pm to Hardy_Har
Same
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:23 pm to ShaneTheLegLechler
Most other states don't have this notion that their "Flagship" public state university is some bastion of the state's elite. For whatever reason, Mississippi does.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 7:23 pm to wmr
So it really is all about the narrative? Like, when journalists write an article about something that OM fans feel like we should be a part of, we load down their email and make enough of an impression that they remember the next time around?
Does said journalist then spread the word around other journalists that "OM must be really cool because I've had a bunch of their fans tell me so"?
Is there some other way it works?
Does said journalist then spread the word around other journalists that "OM must be really cool because I've had a bunch of their fans tell me so"?
Is there some other way it works?
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